sábado, 24 de septiembre de 2016

Featuring new work by Raquel Paiewonsky at Peligro Amarillo / Santurce

Horns (2016), mixed media collage on landscape painting, 12” x 16”

SAN JUAN, PR – Peligro Amarillo / Santurce is pleased to
present Uonderland by Raquel Paiewonsky, featuring new work exploring
landscape, architecture and social metaphor / fantasy from October – November.
In 2015, Paiewonsky was artist-in-residence at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in
Berlin, supported by The Davidoff Art Initiative. Inspired by her time in
Germany’s capital and cultural center, this vibrant series made its debut at
VOLTA New York 2016 during Armory Arts Week in March.

Raquel Paiewonsky (b. 1969, Puerto Plata, Dominican
Republic) works across a range of media, including painting, sculpture,
installation and photography. She has presented at 15 solo exhibitions in the
Dominican Republic and the United States, as well as group shows in the US,
France, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, Ecuador, among
others. Paiewonsky has also presented work at the 53rd and 55th Venice Biennale
in the Latin American Pavillion

Exile (2016) mixed media collage on
landscape painting, 16” x 20”

“The predominantly feminine social body in Raquel
Paiewonsky’s work addresses issues of gender politics, couple relationships,
sexuality, maternity, ecology and other issues of a general nature, but it also
alludes to hot-button issues in the Dominican context, such as prostitution,”
notes Gerardo Mosquera, Chief Curator of the San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial. “The
artist uses the body as a kind of tropological platform from which to
illuminate these issues in their own complexity and in the imaginal complexity
of art, without falling into the prevailing literalness of socially critical
art in her country. We are mistaken if we think that her artworks are about the
body or sexuality. They are so only indirectly, because here the body is above
all else a critical resource that drives the artist’s expression with great
power.”

Although seldom conveying violence explicitly, Paiewonsky’s
work is very much concerned with the veiled but insidious violence that
permeates the personal, social and political systems in which we live. “I am
particularly interested in object / subject interventions, often utilizing
fabric or collage as a means of taking over a particular space, body or
artifact,” she stresses. “In recent years, my work explores the relationship
between our essence and our surroundings, the impact of stereotypes and
cultural constructions, always taking as a reference our instinctual selves and
the ways in which the primal component of our nature is affected by the new and
ever changing contexts of contemporary life.”

Paiewonsky’s work is in international collections that
include Daros-Latinoamérica, Zürich, Switzerland; The RISD Museum, Rhode
Island; Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Centro León,
Santiago, Dominican Republic. She is the recipient of the Gran Premio Eduardo
León award in 2006, 2008 and 2012, and was awarded in the XX and XXII editions
of the National Visual Arts Biennial of Santo Domingo. Paiewonsky holds a BFA
from Parsons School of Design and co-founded Quintipata, an internationally
recognized art collective from the Dominican Republic that includes Pascal
Meccariello, Jorge Pineda, and Belkis Ramirez.

Brazil (2016), mixed media collage on landscape painting, 12” x 16”

The exhibition will conclude at the end of November. This
is Paiewonsky’s first solo exhibition at Peligro Amarillo / Santurce. Most
recently, she presented Uonderland at Yellow Peril over the summer and along
with select works at VOLTA NY 2016 during Armory Week.

Raquel Paiewonsky (b. 1969, Puerto Plata, Dominican
Republic) works across a range of media, including painting, sculpture,
installation and photography. She has presented at 15 solo exhibitions in the
Dominican Republic and the United States, as well as group shows in the US,
France, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, Ecuador, among
others. Paiewonsky has also presented work at the 53rd and 55th Venice Biennale
in the Latin American Pavilion. Her work is in international collections that
include Daros-Latinoamérica, Zürich, Switzerland; The RISD Museum, Rhode
Island; Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Centro León,
Santiago, Dominican Republic. She is the recipient the Gran Premio Eduardo León
award in 2006, 2008 and 2012, and was awarded in the XX and XXII editions of
the National Visual Arts Biennial of Santo Domingo. In 2015, she was
artist-in-residence at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, supported by The
Davidoff Art Initiative. Paiewonsky holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design
and co-founded Quintipata, an internationally recognized art collective from
the Dominican Republic that includes Pascal Meccariello, Jorge Pineda, and
Belkis Ramirez. For more info, visit raquelpaiewonsky.com.